Events Calendar

This feed is a curated compilation of entrepreneurship events around the university.

  • APPLICATION DEADLINE: Pre-proposals for Lab-to-Market Accelerators | Life Sciences

    BRINGING YOUR IDEAS TO LIFE... Moving cutting-edge university research out of the lab to benefit society Accelerator programs aim to catalyze innovation via support to interdisciplinary engineer / scientist / clinician teams, with the goal of increasing the potential for private investment towards continued product development, clinical testing, and, ultimately, improved patient care and healthcare […]

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    Fast Pitch Competition

    OPEN TO ALL COLUMBIANS APPLY HERE Learn more here. Fast Pitch is Columbia Engineering's annual elevator pitch competition where teams have 60 seconds to sell their business ideas to a panel of judges. Your elevator pitch could be the  most important words that describe your business. If you are not able to hook your investors, partners, or customers within […]

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    DEADLINE: #NextGenCup Challenge

    OPEN TO ALL JOIN HERE Join the #NextGenCup Challenge, run in partnership with Starbucks, McDonald’s, Closed Loop Partners, and OpenIDEO. The goal of this Challenge is to design solutions that answer the following question: How might we design the next generation fiber cup to be recoverable on a global scale, while maintaining the performance standards we know and trust? Solutions can be submitted between October 9, 2018 and November 16, 2018. The winning solutions will be announced […]

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    Havas: The Future of NYC Transportation (Call for Projects)

    Havas: The Future of NYC Transportation. Transportation is key to movement, access, and connections. Havas will partner with NYC Media Lab to launch an open call for NYC universities to imagine the future of transportation in cities. Key challenge questions include: How will technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning and computer vision shape the future […]

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    Panel Discussion on “Smart Speakers and Journalism”

    OPEN TO ALL COLUMBIANS REGISTER HERE Voice assistants are changing the way people search for and consume content. By one estimate, half of the adults in the US make use of voice interfaces - for now, mostly on their smartphones. But with the steady improvement of voice recognition, smart speakers like Amazon's Echo, Google Home, […]

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    2018 CleanTech Innovation Showcase

    OPEN TO ALL RSVP HERE You're invited to the 2018 CleanTech Innovation Showcase hosted by Columbia Technology Ventures, Columbia Engineering, the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, and the Earth Institute at Columbia University. This inaugural event will highlight advancements by Columbia researchers in clean technology including waste conversion, fuel production, wastewater treatment, sustainable energy storage and batteries, environmental microbiology, data analytics, and […]

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    Studio Hours at the Design Studio (Open Collaboration Time)

    OPEN TO ALL IN THE COLUMBIA COMMUNITY Do you have an idea and want to get personal design thinking feedback from the Columbia Entrepreneurship Design Studio? During Studio Hours, teams or individuals are invited to discuss their projects or ideas one-on-one with human-centered designers in the Studio. Teams of Columbia affiliates are also welcome to […]

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